The fourth hand : a novel / John Irving.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irving, John, 1942-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--Fiction.

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Hand--Surgery.

Transplant surgeons.

Donation of organs, tissues, etc.

Donation of organs, tissues, etc--Fiction.

Television journalists--Fiction.

Television journalists.

Transplant surgeons--Fiction.

Hand--Surgery--Fiction.

Hand.

Psychological fiction.

Football fans--Fiction.

Love stories.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Love stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

316 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [2001]

Summary:

While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. A well-known Boston hand surgeon wants to perform the first hand transplant on the reporter, but the problem is there is no hand available. A married woman from Wisconsin wants to give the reporter her husband's left hand--that is, after her husband dies.

Notes:

"The text of this book was set in Janson, a misnamed typeface designed in about 1690 by Nicholas Kis, a Hungarian in Amsterdam ..."

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Irving, John, 1942- Fourth hand.

ISBN:

0375506276

9780375506277

OCLC:

45791398

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